Word: protests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...usually in accordance with what TIME says concerning topics of general information but I certainly do protest when I encounter a magazine like TIME stating things which are misleading. I am referring to what you state concerning Paolino Uzcudun, the well-known pugilist. (This appeared in your number of July...
...there forcibly feeding them. It was recalled that in 1923 Mr. Sacco went on a hunger strike that lasted for more than a month, but gave up his starvation idea after having once been subjected to the forcible-feeding process (TIME, March 3, 1923). The hunger-strike is a protest against the secrecy of the investigations and began after a visit from Mrs. Sacco, whose account of her interview with Governor Fuller (TIME, July 25) apparently indicated that the Governor was not disposed to interfere with the due operation of Massachusetts...
Federal Aid. The most striking difference between Mr. Speers' articles of one week ago and those of last week was the growing evidence of protest against the Federal Government. The argument is not so much that Congress should meet and quickly solve the problem of flood control. The people of Louisiana do expect that the next session of Congress will concern itself with the problem of preventing future floods, but they are most interested in having something done to alleviate the results of the flood that has just ruined them. What they most resent is the attitude, apparently prevailing...
...known as Volcano House) built on the side of the mountain. For some time, however, he has been away on a volcano-studying mission in Alaska. Natives maintain that Pele has grown fond of Dr. Jaggar and that the eruption is her protest against his absence. In support of this theory they say that when, in 1924. Dr Jaggar left Hawaii for a visit to New York, Kilauea promptly became rampant and that its last previous outbreak (1925) came while Dr. Jaggar was traveling in the Orient...
Debate on the "reform" proposals was very largely attended last week, became the leading political topic, roused Labor orators throughout Britain to violent protest. There seemed little chance, however, that the projected Reform Act can be drawn up, much less presented to Parliament, before next year...